Pest and vermin control in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire has seen a brisk (2010) which is unexpected given the very cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest and Vermin controllers were kept working with the usual city centre rats and mice calls all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold late winter has already seen some ant infestation reported.
The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a active year for ant work.
Usually ants build nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to visit kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at mating time when they can be most troublesome as they release winged males and winged queens which then fly off to mate.
The release of several thousands of these flying ants inside your house can be horrible indeed.
A somewhat new pest was quite prevalant in the the North West area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was unusual for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to encounter these pests until recently but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this year has seen reports of these beetles in large numbers.
They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and some fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to eradicate.
Bed Bugs are continuing their come back in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, often arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.
Often the first reaction of unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these horrific,blood-sucking insects is to destroy the old beds and buy new.
This is an expensive error as despite their name bed bugs do not just live in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within up to fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds will be rapidly re-infested.
Many people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine just on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People regularly associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not require grime, they eat you!
Up to the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
This revolutionary new treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a low cost re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most houses subject to satisfactory,free
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are giving a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for further details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814
